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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:20 PM
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Have I grown too old to dream?
I wonder as I rush to my seventy second birthday. Now I see yesterday as being more interesting than tomorrow.

It is like once when the motor on my crab boat quit and I waited patient for (perhaps) rescue. While I sat alone on my boat anchored up in the brown water salt creek surrounded by salt marsh grass I had no fears of yesterday or tomorrow.

In the distance I could see the Cape Romain light house and the adjacent tower and I knew I was not alone.

But now I am not so sure.

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BelleCarolinaPeridot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:27 PM
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1. No one ever grows too old to dream.
I believe dreams are what keep me alive.And when they come to light that makes me smile :)
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:37 PM
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2. Thanks.
I want to believe that.

I am just recovering from a nasty adventure with Vicodin as prescribed by my doctor. I will never do that drug again.

That terrible experience of drug induced depression has left me wondering.

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BelleCarolinaPeridot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 11:15 PM
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33. I know what you mean ...
I took two last summer ... f-d me up .
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:48 PM
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3. ................
:hug:


if you need one you can have one of mine...I got tons of dreams so I won't miss one or two
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:55 PM
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5. Yes you do
I will steal some. One time I had two ponies; Dottie and Pete (The Stallion).

Pete was a mean one. When I sold them the buyer remarked he was going to have Pete gelded. Our little girl thought he meant to make hamburger out of poor Pete. She was very upset.

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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:58 PM
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9. thanks for sharing
and may I just say...bless her heart, what a sweetiepie
Ponies can be mean...more so than horses
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:53 PM
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4. It's hard to dream when you have to keep getting up to use the bathroom.
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:56 PM
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6. ................
:spray:
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:57 PM
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7. Yes!
Old man curse. Hahahahaha

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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:58 PM
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8. Right behind you, bro.
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 01:02 PM
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10. Do you have
these depressing thoughts?

I am quite sure that this depression will pass as I regain strength. I will have to say these seemingly endless days of rain and cold tend to dampen one's spirits.

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joneschick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 01:47 PM
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11. careful with that vicoden shit
It doesn't make me all nice and mellow, it's more like wanting to sit and the corner and cry with a good dose of paranoia thrown in.
Keep the dreams and make new ones. Borrow some of mine to get you through.:hug:
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 03:01 PM
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14. That pretty well describes my experience.
I did one morning say enough of this and I quit the Vicodin and trashed that which I had left.

Even so it has been slow going.

Thanks joneschick.

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kiraboo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:22 PM
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13. Oneighty, I am just now beginning to pull myself
out of a serious depressive episode. Even understanding the nature of the illness I was suffering, I was yet for a time unable to remember why life was a gift and well worth living. Sometimes you must bide your time and trust that you will heal, however slowly. You will.
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 03:06 PM
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16. This drug induced depression
was not my normal sort of passing depression. It just hung in there. I am getting over it finally.

It is good to have sharing friends on DU. Thanks.

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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 11:25 PM
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34. Are you still down there in Low Country?
Don't see you around much in the main forums. But, you might have been posting everywhere..and I just missed it.

If you are still down there ....that's the land of dreams. I miss it but can't go back. But...it stays with me...the birds sounds, marsh, wind in the pines, the smells the sounds the ocean.

The marsh at all times of day and the colors...are my dreams. Maybe when you live there it becomes common and you don't see the dreams as I remember.

Anyway...hope you are feeling better if it's a med thing or if it's just that "funk thing" that everyone seems to be feeling these days.

:-)'s and some good dreams to ya!
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 03:01 PM
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15. Sorry to hear that..
It passes for sure. One thing about aging is relief. The important things seem less important and the real things become more real. A hot cup of coffee in a warm well-lit room anchors me in the present.

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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 03:18 PM
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17. Warm well lit room!
Hahahaha

Last fall had a small room added to my house at ground level-I could no longer handle the upstairs living.

My room walls have walnut stained pine 1x4 inch board wainscot four feet high. The upper four feet is bright yellow with chinese red vertical 1x4s at two foot intervals. The ceiling is white tile, the floor is red carpet.

Now that is a bright and surprisingly pleasant room. I have TV, CD player, computer and an excellent vinyl record player. Every body that enters my room smiles; or is it a laugh?

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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 03:28 PM
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20. Now that I'd like to see a picture of.
Post one if you can.

Here's to you and the room: :donut:
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 03:33 PM
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21. Another week or so
I might be able to do that rug.

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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 03:39 PM
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22. OK, friend.
Looking forward to it. I don't have a scanner myself.
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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 01:53 PM
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12. oneighty
Edited on Sat May-20-06 01:53 PM by auntAgonist
You are never too old to dream. Dreams are not only for the young. You are such a thoughtful, thoughtfilled, articulate person. Your threads and comments here are PROOF beyond doubt that you have a wonderful sense of yourself and your surroundings. Take heart, dream, enjoy, the best is yet to come. (It's the vicodin that's got you down) Dreams are what keep us going sometimes. Dream your dreams, share your dreams, LIVE and LOVE your dreams ...You're NEVER too old, never.

:loveya: and hope you feel better real soon!

:hug:

take care 180 :)

aA
kesha.
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 03:22 PM
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18. Thank you auntAgonist
Have you read my Journal? Have you visited thenecessarylanguage where some DUers have their writings posted? Necessarylanguage is available from my Journal.

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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 07:37 PM
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25. thanks 180, I do look at / read your Journal
:)

Dream always my friend. You're never too old.


aA
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 08:08 PM
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27. Did you access
the necessarylanguage from my Journal?

I have 'KAZUKO' a love story there in the Jan 2006 edition.

There are good stories in necessarylanguage all written by DUers.

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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 03:26 PM
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19. My dear 180!
You will never be too old to dream!

I feel this so strongly! I'm about a decade behind you, and I know I will always dream of what could be.....

Dreams may come, and they may prove untenable...but you must still have them.....

Never lose your ability to dream!

Even if losing the dream causes you pain.....

Mark Twain said something along these lines, about illusions:

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live." This is from his story "Following the Equator."

I truly feel that once you stop dreaming, you die a little.....

And I will never be ready for that little death!
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Dangerously Amused Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 05:52 PM
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23. No. Not even close.



The dreaming age cutoff is 153. You are not even halfway there yet. So hoist up those dreams, pops. No more putting them off! :7


Hey oneighty, good to see you around again and back at being your old self. I missed you.


:hug:
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 07:36 PM
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24. Do not call that guy DA
Call me.

Hahaha

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Dangerously Amused Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 08:52 PM
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30. Oh my dear, if it was you I would definitely call.



There would be no getting between me and a phone.


:hug:
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 07:40 PM
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26. Can I borrow a feeling?
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 08:10 PM
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28. Of course.
Here is an arm load.

((((((((((((((((((hug)))))))))))))))))

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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 08:19 PM
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29. Nah. You just have to let yourself do it.
Redstone
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meti57b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 09:04 PM
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31. I suggest a zen approach to life .....
Stay in the here and now. There is no past or present. They are both illusions. Today is real. Enjoy every minute of it!
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:04 PM
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32. Dreams are the ONLY thing(s) that are truly FREE. I will dream,...
,...until the day I pass.

But,...You are not really dealing with the capacity to dream. You're dealing with aloneness.

You are no more alone now than you were then. I promise. :hug:
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 12:28 AM
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35. Are you still breathing?
Then you aren't too old to dream.

I plan to hold on to mine forever...and if one comes true, I'll find another to replace it.

And you're not alone.

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